The Novels of Mrs. Oliphant: A Subversive View of Traditional ThemesP. Lang, 1994 - 343 páginas Margarete Oliphant (1828-1897) has long been decried as a conventional hack. This study shows that she was, in fact, an original and quite subversive writer, who radically re-interpreted traditional motifs and challenged values and ideals sacrosanct to the age. In her novels she turned upside down Victorian stereotypes of gender roles, marriage and family hierarchy, presented religious questions, death-bed scenes and the hereafter from a new and unconventional angle, and in her portrayal dispensed with models almost all of her contemporaries were content to follow. She deserves a permanent place in the gallery of nineteenth-century authors. |
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... Society It is true that in some of her novels Oliphant presents the world of Nonconformist shop - keepers and traders , but for the most part her protagonists come from " polite society " , that caste of ladies and gentlemen that ...
... Society It is true that in some of her novels Oliphant presents the world of Nonconformist shop - keepers and traders , but for the most part her protagonists come from " polite society " , that caste of ladies and gentlemen that ...
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... Society's indignation at Patty's marriage and social rise merely masks the envy of those who had themselves envisaged the idiot as a potential husband.12 Several had speculated on the subject , thinking that , after all , to pre- serve ...
... Society's indignation at Patty's marriage and social rise merely masks the envy of those who had themselves envisaged the idiot as a potential husband.12 Several had speculated on the subject , thinking that , after all , to pre- serve ...
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... society in Carlingford to give a respectful assent , for example , to Mr. Bury's extreme Low - Churchism , as if it were profane , as it certainly was not respectable , to differ from the Rector - and to give him as wide a field as ...
... society in Carlingford to give a respectful assent , for example , to Mr. Bury's extreme Low - Churchism , as if it were profane , as it certainly was not respectable , to differ from the Rector - and to give him as wide a field as ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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